With its entry into the European Union in 2004, Poland accepted the Acquis Communautaire in its entirety. However, recognizing the body of common rights and obligations that are binding on all EU Member States, dose not only indicate the mere acceptance of the EU’s legal foundations, but it implies that Member States become committed to the application as well as …
Nine months into his presidency, Joe Biden is in political trouble. After four years of chaos under Donald Trump’s mandate, in 2020, after a successful electoral campaign, Joe Biden was elected president of the United States of America as the most voted candidate among young people between the age 18-24 as well as 25-29, a clear sign that the younger …
The Guinean military’s overthrow of President Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 is the country’s third coup d’état since its independence in 1958, an outcome of autocratic overreach, erosion of democratic norms, systemic corruption and economic mismanagement (Devermont, 2021). Alpha Condé, the first peacefully and democratically elected president of Guinea, began to govern the country in 2010, and was re-elected …
This year, Egypt was ranked 166th out of 180 countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index (RSF, 2021b). This comes as no surprise given the country’s consistent status as one of the world’s top jailers of journalists. Indeed, in 2020, Egypt had the third highest number of jailed journalists globally, with at least 27 journalists in prison (CPJ, 2020).Yet, …
29 June 2021 On June 12, the parliamentary elections were held in Algeria, with the aim of definitively turning the page on Bouteflika. In 2019, the president, who has been in office since 1999, proposed his candidacy once again for the presidential elections, provoking a strong wave of protests that led him to resign that same year. These protests, referred …
29 June 2021 The recent arrest of the journalist Fung Wai-kong, on the 28th of June, has been the latest case of Hong Kong’s government crackdown against freedom of speech and more particular against anti-Chinese and pro-independence views inside the area (Davidson, 2021). However, the police actions against the journalist, who was arrested alongside with the whole executive team of …
In May 2024, the European Institute for International Relations has signed a 2 years …
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